Justin Bamberg

Early life

Justin T. Bamberg was born on March 7, 1987. He graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2011.

Career

Bamberg serves as a Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives and is a personal injury trial lawyer with Bamberg Legal, LLC.

In 2015 he represented the family of police-shooting victim Walter Scott. In October 2015, Bamberg, an attorney with the law firm of Bamberg Legal in Bamberg, South Carolina, along with attorney L. Chris Stewart of Stewart Seay & Felton in Atlanta, Georgia, negotiated a $6.5 million pre-suit settlement on behalf of the Estate of Walter Scott to resolve claims for wrongful death and civil rights violations. It was the largest pre-suit settlement of its kind in South Carolina history.

In late 2015, Bamberg initially supported and formally endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. In January 2016, Bamberg pulled his endorsement and formally endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, highlighting Sanders' unwavering support of "racial, social and economic justice". Bamberg went on to undertake a role as one of Sanders' National Surrogates, appearing with Sanders at events across the country as well as on his behalf.

Bamberg has served as attorney for clients in some of the United States’ most high profile cases, particularly in regards to officer-involved incidents. In addition to the Walter Scott case, Bamberg has represented the families of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Bryant Heyward in Hollywood, South Carolina; and Keith Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bamberg also represented the family of 20-year old Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas of Raleigh, North Carolina, who was shot and killed by a neighbor when leaving a house party in August 2016 – a shooting that drew comparisons to Trayvon Martin’s death in Florida, and “Jane Doe,” an Orangeburg County, South Carolina woman who was allegedly coerced into performing a sex act by an on duty Deputy Sheriff.

In addition to his civil rights trial work, Bamberg has successfully represented individuals in personal injury and wrongful death matters, such as the fatal tractor trailer accident that claimed the life of a Bamberg City Councilwoman in 2015, and a Duke University Hospital employee who was sexually assaulted by an unknown assailant while on the job.

Bamberg has been nationally recognized for his work as a trial lawyer, the Los Angeles Times having said of him: "Bamberg has emerged as a rising star in a quasi-fraternity of lawyers who bill themselves as both civil rights fighters and tort attorneys who can win millions of dollars in wrongful-death payouts." In November 2016, Bamberg founded the trial lawyer firm Bamberg Legal, LLC, a plaintiffs litigation law firm focusing primarily on personal injury, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, and civil rights/use of force litigation.

In January 2017, news arose that Kamiyah Mobley, who was abducted from a Jacksonville, Florida hospital in 1998 at eight hours old, had been found in Walterboro, South Carolina, having been raised by her abductor under the name Alexis Manigo. Then eighteen, Mobley retained attorney Bamberg to represent her interests, such as working to obtain identification and a Social Security card.